Breakthroughs in Future Network Development and the East Data West Computing Project in China

TapTechNews August 22nd news, according to CCTV News report, the Eighth Future Network Development Conference opened in Nanjing today. This conference focused on hot topics such as artificial intelligence, large models, and computing power networks, and released four major scientific research achievements:

The construction of the National Future Network Experimental Facility (CENI) was completed.

Significant breakthroughs were made in the optoelectronic fusion wide-area deterministic network technology.

The first vehicle time-sensitive network control system in the industry achieved results.

6G wireless network millisecond-level real-time intelligent technology.

Academician Liu Yunjie of the Chinese Academy of Engineering introduced that the optoelectronic fusion wide-area deterministic network technology is a technology for the East Data West Computing Project, which will reduce the transmission cost by 50%. It is a major technological breakthrough in the East Data West Computing Project and is the first in the world and in a leading international position.

The East Data West Computing Project refers to building a new computing power network system integrating data centers, cloud computing, and big data to orderly guide the computing power demand in the east to the west, optimize the construction layout of data centers, and promote the coordinated linkage between the east and the west.

According to TapTechNews' previous report, in February 2022, China started the construction of national computing power hub nodes in eight places such as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Chengdu-Chongqing, Inner Mongolia, Guizhou, Gansu, and Ningxia, and planned 10 national data center clusters, starting the East Data West Computing project.

China plans that by the end of 2025, all kinds of new computing power in the national hub node areas will account for more than 60% of the national new computing power, and the green power of new data centers in the national hub node areas will account for more than 80%.

As of the end of March this year, the total computing power scale of the 10 national data center clusters exceeded 1.46 million standard racks, and the overall rack utilization rate was 62.72%, an increase of 4 percentage points compared to 2022; the network latency between the east-west hub nodes has basically met the requirement of 20 milliseconds (ms); the green power proportion of data centers exceeded the national average level, and the green power usage rate of some advanced data centers reached about 80%, and the PUE (power utilization efficiency) of new data centers was reduced to a minimum of 1.10.